The Health Care Transformation Task Force joined NAACOs and other organizations in a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma expressing appreciation for significant efforts underway by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to address the COVID-19 pandemic, including expanded telehealth services to help...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) wrote to CMS to convey our members' feedback and highlight opportunities to improve the design and implementation of the Direct Contracting Model. HCTTF Offered the following recommendations Model Application Details: CMS should make the full details of...
The Patient-Centered Priorities Work Group developed a set of Principles for Consumerism in Value-Based Care that aim to ensure consumerism approaches are patient-centered and equitable. These seven principles can be used as a benchmark or checklist by health care stakeholders, including payers and providers, to...
WASHINGTON (February 25, 2020) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force) announced today that MedStar Health has joined its membership. Established in 2014, the Task Force is an industry consortium comprised of patients, payers, providers and purchaser representatives committed to advancing delivery...
Since its inception, CMMI has been at the epicenter of federal government efforts to reform health care payment and delivery and has served as an effective catalyst in the development and adoption of value-based payment (VBP) models. However, there are factors limiting the impact of...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force wrote to express opposition to H.R. 5741. In sum, the bill goes further than necessary to address legitimate concerns, will significantly hamper innovation through added administrative burden, and will give stakeholders new tools to slow innovation based on personal...
New case studies provide insight into how three leading health care organizations are incorporating patients in organizational governance and decision-making WASHINGTON (February 5, 2020) – The Health Care Transformation Task Force (HCTTF or Task Force), a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force, a group of leading health care payers, providers, purchasers and patient organizations, and Community Catalyst, a national non-profit advocacy organization working to build the consumer and community leadership that is required to transform the American health system, released a...
The Health Care Transformation Task Force and the Health Care Payment Learning & Action Network (LAN) hosted a webinar with Mark McClellan, MD, co-chair of the LAN CEO Forum and founding HCTTF Board member. The webinar highlighted the LAN's new goals to accelerate the percentage...
Supplemental benefits are additional services offered by Medicare Advantage (MA) plans other than Part A and Part B benefits. Historically, CMS required supplemental benefits to be an item of service that was not covered by traditional Medicare, but was primarily health related, like dental and...